Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-23
LOCAL. BREyITIEs.


/ East, on special time, Jeff last evening.
i. l. Hurlburt was yesterday commissioned
a Notary Public, toreside at Willows, Coluss
county.
| Forest fires are said 10 be doing grea,
amount of damage in the timber throughout
Ell Dorado county.
The people of Yolo are discussing the
proposition TO have a Hall of Records
erected at Woodland.
| Owing to the absence of Mayor Eugene
| Gregory from the city yesterday no session
| of the Board OF Trustees was held. They
| will meet at 10 A. NJ, to day.
A brakeman named Hugh Anderson was
brought to the Railroad Hospital yesterday
| morning from RED Bluff, where mis- hand
was mashed while coupling cars.
There was talk of the Pioneers and Los
Angeles Club playing here next Sunday,
but it has fallen through. A picked nine
| might make it lively for the Marysyille
Club.
Seventy Chinese hop-pickers went to o.
Z. LovdaPs Riverside hop ranch yesterday
TO commence work. and about the latter
part of the week half as many more will
follow.
These arrests were made yesterday: All
w all ny OlhCcT l1DWell, LOT IUlSueIneanOT,
in driving over fire-hose during fire; All
Mon, by Deputy Sheriff Eldred, for misde-
meanor.
A San Francisco paper announces that
Manager Finn, of the Pioneers has signed
AL. Hapeman, recently with the Los Ang-
eles Club, to pitch for his nine, alternating
with Lorrigan.
A special election was held in Woodland
last Saturday to determine whether spe-
cial tax Of $4,000 should be levied for street
improvements, etc, and the proposition
was carried by good majority.
Ex-Supervisor Christy slipped and fell
while working in a mining shaft near
Folsom few days ago, spraining his right
ankle to such an extent that he is now
compelled to locomote on erutches.
Rev. E. R. Ollie, d. D., lectures tonight
at the Sixth-street NJ. E. Church on Our
Best Society,"" Mr.. Ollie closes his pas
torate in the city this week, and this will
be one of the last opportunities to hear
him.
Early yesterday morning the First Artil-
leiy Regiment returned from its camp at
Santa Cruz. The boys were glad to get
home, but were unanimous in the express
sion that their camp life had been pleasant
| and instructive.
H. Schaffer, Brigadier- General of the
Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias, ar
| rived in this city last evening for the pur-
pose of laying out the campground to be
| occupied next month. The camp will be
in Capitol Park, and will be occupied from
| the 10Th to the 22d, inclusive.
A citizen made complaint to the police
yesterday that number of boys are in the
| habit of making a stable in the alley be-
tween Third and Fourth, Q and r streets,
their headquarters. Their language is ex-
ceedingly offensive. and their amusement
of throwing missiles at people passing very
dsagreeable to the latter.
An Amador paper reports that n party
of campers returned from the Rubicon
springs in FL Dorado county killed eighteen
deer. These deer were killed in direct
violation of the law. The camping parties
| that go into that county should be made to
| respect the law regarding the killing of
deer, or soon these animals will be alto
| gether wiped off the face of the foothills.
For long time the fig has been the only
| fruit that has not suffered from the ravages
of the birds. The Mountain Democrat says:
Recently bird has made its appearance
in Grass Valley which is accredited with
| eating the figs upon the trees. We have
in several instances this year noticed birds
eating figs from trees in this vicinity-the
| first time we ever noticed such an occur
renee. 1t is the first known destroyer of
| the fig found in this county"
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 79', being 90 warmer than
the normal for that day. The highest and
| lowest temperature was 800 and $50, with
| light, variable winds during the day, and
| fresh, southerly winds at night; weather
| hazy. The highest temperature for the
| three days has been 500, although yester-
| day noon was 90 hotter than the day be-
| fore. Last night at it was 70 cooler than
the same hour the day previous.
| The Reno Gazette says that H. Muir
| doc, living in the extreme northern part of
the county, is in town, on the way to Sac
ramento. where he expects to sell q band of
1S5 horses now on the road to market.
They are all good American horses, and
will, the owner thinks, bring about Sl4 900
in California. MT. Murdoc says the I'M
mense immigration OF people to this coast
| consumes great many horses, and Cali
| fornia is bound to grow as a market, espe-
eially for draft horses.
Sunday evening a visitor to the city from
Lincoln, farmer, INDUCED in stimulants
to such an extent that he became reckless
and made an all-night rum He awoke
about o'clock yesterday morning to find
| that he had been enjoying a sleep on a
doorstep on X street, between Second and
Third, and at some time during the period
of his enjoyment he had been robbed OF
$780, He reported the matter to the DO
| lice, but unfortunately he cannot recollect
where he was during the latter part of the
night, nor with whom, but thinks il was in
a place where piano was being used.
! Woodland Parlor, N S. G. W, has pro-
cured tent, 80 by 40 feet to be used as its
headquarters at Napa on the occasion OF
the Admission Day gathering. A fine
display of Yolo county fruits will be made,
and constant supply kept up, that the
visitors may be invited to help themselves
| freely. About 40 Native Sons, accompanied
| by 10 or more ladies and the First Artillery
Band of Sacramento, will make up Wood
| lands delegation. An open-air concert by
| the Artillery Band is treat the Woodland
boys propose giving the Napa folks on the
! evening of the 9th. They will probably
leave for Napa on the afternoon of the Sth
The C. ?. R. r. Baseball Club returned
from Marysville by the Portland express
yesterday morning. They were hand.
somely treated by the H. & L. Club of that
city during their stay, and enjoyed the visit
Speaking of their game with the H. & l..
they say it was closely contested, but they
believed they would win it until the sew
enth inning when the umpire got his eyes
SO full of perspiration that be could not see
the ball and plate at the same time, and
called everything Ramsey pitched a bail
until the bases were full of men for whom
six hals had been called. Ramsey struck
ont Il OF the II. & LIS, and it does seen
a little singular that he should have be
come so very wild all at once.
| A Reunion I'm Eel Dorado County.
The Mountain Democrat of Saturday says